A group of nuns in a suburb of Chicago are protesting the development of a strip club that they say will negatively influence the neighborhood.

The Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo in Melrose Park, Ill., about 13 miles west of Chicago, say the forthcoming "Get It" gentlemen's club that the town approved last year will be bad for the community, especially children.

"We are concerned about morals," said Sister Marciana Zambiasi. "It's not much for the sisters but for the neighborhood and children. It's very close to houses."

The sisters hosted an indoor vigil with about 100 people on Monday about the contentious property, as reported by the local CBS affiliate.

The nunnery has about 24 sisters with three houses on the property: one with retired nuns, one with active nuns and a novitiate with young trainees.
Zambiasi, who declined to provide her age, is one of the retired sisters.

Though the development in the neighboring village of Stone Park was approved in August 2010, the sisters said they were upset because they were not notified the property was going to be a strip club.

When an adult entertainment business is established, the village must notify all property owners within 250 yards of the site, according to ABC affiliate WLS. But the notice that was meant for the nuns ended up at the wrong address, WLS reported.